Scope and Content Note

This series contains the complete, final manuscript draft of The Powers of Psychiatry, as well as an early draft of the same work titled "The Uses and Abuses of Psychiatry." This draft includes 24 unique chapter manuscripts in addition to drafts of the abstract, outline, and introduction of the book. Also included are manuscripts and printed articles covering a variety of topics including eugenic sterilization, juvenile psychiatry, drug abuse, marijuana, retarded offenders, the right to die, extended life, and abortion.

Arrangement Note

Arranged in alphabetical order.

Box

Folder

Content

1

1

"Abraham Lincoln," (1 of 3), undated

1

2

"Abraham Lincoln," (2 of 3), undated

1

3

"Abraham Lincoln," (3 of 3), undated

1

4

"An Attempt to Cancel Consent in Electroshock Therapy," 1972

1

5

"Basic Facts About Mental Illness," 1980 March 13

1

6

"Being Human in the Brave New World: Bio-Ethical Problems and the Future," undated

1

7

Book reviews by Robitscher, 1969-1980

1

8

"Can Professionals Talk with Each Other?" 1974 April 19

1

9

"Child Psychiatry and the Law," 1978

1

10

"The Climate of Paranoia," undated

1

11

"Coerced Cures Strike Blow at Privacy Right," 1975 March 21

1

12

"The Commitment of Minors and Legal Advocacy," 1977 February 17

1

13

"Contemporary Legal Issues in Medicine and Religion," 1972 October 11

1

14

"Controversial Crusaders" manuscript, 1968

1

15

"Controversial Crusaders" printed article, 1968-1969

1

16

"Controversies in Psychiatry," 1969

2

1

"Counseling," undated

2

2

"Courts, State Hospitals, and the Right to Treatment," 1972 September

2

3

"Criminal Responsibility," 1966

2

4

Curriculum vitae, undated

2

5

"Death and Dying: New Techniques Bring New Problems," undated

2

6

"Delinquency and Therapeutic Custody," undated

2

7

"The Depressed Patient and Physician Responsibility," 1969

2

8

"The Doctor and the Advance of Medical Technology: Questions on the Frontier of Biomedical Ethics," undated

2

9

"The Doctor as an Occasional Witness," 1969

2

10

"Doctors' Privileged Communications, Public Life, and History's Rights," 1968 May